The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
NEWS in GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.


= A letter received at Portland by Rev. FIR.
p. H. Healy, from his brother, Capt Healy.
OF the revenue steamer Bear, announces that
he had beached his vessel, constructed a
coifer-dam, found the leak, replaced the cop
per, aud gone on his northern voyage The
rumor of the loss Of the Bear Is, therefore,
contradicted by the captains own report.
A special from Chatsworth, H., says: The
coroner's jury investigating the cause Of the
Chatsworth railway disaster have agreed on
q verdict which holds Timothy Coughlin,
foreman of section Z, TO the grand jury, and
negatively exonerates the company. Tho
management is not censured for running a
double header, for lax system of track in
spection, or for anything else. The verdict
simply implies that the failure to patrol the
track Tor six hours before the train came, and
the habit of burning grass close to the track
for six hours before the train came, and the
habit OF burning grass close to the track are
subjects for criticism. The three or four
staying qualities than the two or three Of
those who wanted to tixa portion of the
blame on the management.
The falling of an elevator In G.. Seidenberg
q Co. S building in New York City, resulted
In the death of one woman, tho injuring
fatally Of boy, and slight injuries to about
dozen girls. About IS female hands were
aboard. When the elevator got to the third
floor it began to descend. All efforts to stop
It. were unay y The safety catches
increased its speed and crashed to the base
ment. Several of the passengers had tainted
Mrs. James Lynch, aged IS years, was dead,
and the body was frightfully mangled. 1t
was found that O'Neil, the elevator boy, had
sustained fracture of the spine, He will
die. From all that can be ascertained, IL is
an accident pure and simple. The elevator,
one of Otis Bros make, was inspected but a
week ago, and pronounced all right. The
accident is due to the breaking of the pinion
wheel which controlled the drum on which
tho cable winds. After the accident, the
Messrs, Seidenberg granted holiday. to all
the girls employed by them. Most of them
were greatly shocked.
Fears are expressed that the United States
cutter Bear is lost.
The cause of the accident ON the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad at Washington was the high
rate of speed with which trains enter the
city.
A collision occurred on the Baltimore s.
Ohio railroad by one east-b bound freight train
running into the rear of another freight train,
by which II cars were wrecked. A train of
colored excursionists from Harpers Ferry
engineer and conductor of one of the trains
were severely, and it is thought fatally, in
jured. The tiremen are also probably fatally
hurt
Master Plumber Thomas Cochran of New
York has caused the arrest of Walking Del
egate Edward Farrell, in a civil suit to re-
cover $500 damages, alleged to have been
suffered by Cochran by reason of Farrelrs
compelling him to pay $500 to the Journey
men Plumbers Association, to discharge his
non-union men and to employ union men on
a job last winter under penalty of boycott
This is the first suit of the kind that has beer
brought, and it is considered important rs a
| test case.
The new North German Lloyds steamer
Trave, from Bremen, met with serious &C
cident while making her pier in New York
There was tug alongside the ship, wher
suddenly her bow swung around and crashed
into the lower portion of the pier, tearing
away the roof. A portion of the shed fell
upon the bow of the ship, striking several Of
the steerage passengers and two or three OF
the crew. A panic ensued on board the ship
and the officers had great difficulty in restor-
ing order.
Atty. Gen. Sherman has brought suit by
information, in the supreme court, agains
the Revere Copper Company of Canton
Mass, to restrain that corporation from
drawing down the waters of Lake Massa poal
in Sharon. The suit is brought upon com
| plant of citizens of Sharon, who object Il
the lowering of the water of the lake, which
Is Sharon's greatest attraction.
Citizens in the southwestern part of In
diana are again appealing to the Governo,
for protection from the White Caps, or Regu
lutors. Orange, Dubois and Crawford colin
ties are terrorized by the band, which, upoi
the pretence of Furnishing violators of thu
law, goes on plundering and maraudin,
trips nearly every night.
Trade dollars will not be redeemed afte
Sept 5.
President Cleveland has received 60 invita-
tions to visit cities South and West during hi
October tour.
Increased excitement in Colorado over tn
Indian war is reported people are fleeing TO
safety.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of stolel
jewelry have been found buried near bur
glars house in Jersey City, N. ].
An Indiana farmers wife was taken for
burglar and shot in her sleep by her son.
Express Messenger Bennett has been ar
rested on suspicion of being implicated in tn
express robbery of $4,000, which was i
transit from Omaha to Butte.
On account of having already exceeded il
legal limit, Cornell University loses 81 900
600 bequeathed to it,
Gen. Fairchild says the recent opposition t
the G.. A. R. helps its growth. He report
1900 increase during the last quarter.